Palmer Middle School

My daughter has gone to this school for 3 years. She has always done well. The school does a lot to have after school family fun nights, movie night, arts and crafts night, and before and after school activities such as guitar lessons and knitting, a family knitathon, and after school bus shuttles kids to swim lessons once a week if you enroll. In addition to that, my daughter comes home with a homework packet every week. She has hard spelling words and math that she needs my help with. I love it because she is being challenged. Parents get a letter to initial every week for missing work. Kids have incentives for reading 4 books every quarter, neon bowling ore ice skating. This school is everything I expect and more. Also, there are minorities here but I have never witnessed any racial problems. Just thought I would throw that in there because it might be important for someone. The only problem is that they almost never have snow days. The wind can be downing power lines and the lights in the school flicker but they still have school. Occasionally they have weather optional days if you choose to keep your child home it's excused. They have indoor recess when extremely cold.

I like how the school is k-3rd grade, but my child seems bored most of the time. Granted it seems to be a case by case. I have swung by there a few times and it seems teachers lack control from all students in their classroom as i will stop by and there is students across the rooms talking without close supervision. I have also been contacted over issues that should have been handled by the Swanson Staff.

I attended Valley Pathways my Junior year. That place is a joke. It is the last stop for most minors before jail or pregnancy so that's good I guess. This is not a school to send your kid if you care about them. They will not receive a decent education, not at the teachers fault but at the fault of all the kids they [the teachers] try to bring up from a 5th grade level. If you have any amount of intelligence you will be bored. I got A's by just showing up and turning in homework. I went back and graduated from Colony. As much as I hated the rich snobby kids, it was better than constantly saying no I don't want to get high or ditch at lunch. Oh and I actually learned something there.

Highly recommend this school! Great staff involvement.

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